Chinese Heritage in the Making : Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations /
The language of cultural heritage is pervasive in China today. In official rhetoric and policy it is linked to political and economic goals, and serves as a resource for political legitimacy, soft power, and economic development. But the heritage discourse has also opened up space for and legitimize...
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Mapping the Chinese heritage regime: ruptures, governmentality, and agency / Marina Svensson and Christina Maags
- Section I: Re-imagining the past: contested memories and contemporary issues
- Telling stories in a borderland: the evolving life of Ma Bufang's official residence / Susette Cooke
- From a symbol of imperialistic penetration to a site of cultural heritage: the 'Italian-style exotic district' in Tianjin / Hong Zhang
- Historic urban landscape in Beijing: the Gulou project and its contested memories / Florence Graezer Bideau and Haiming Yan
- Section II: Celebrating and experiencing the cultural heritage: top-down and bottom-up processes and negotiations
- Creating a race to the top: hierarchies and competition within the Chinese ICH transmitters system / Christina Maags
- Heritagizing the Chaozhou Hungry Ghosts Festival in Hong Kong / Selina Chan
- Recognition and misrecognition: the politics of intangible cultural heritage in Southwest China / Tami Blumenfield
- Holy heritage: identity and authenticity in a Tibetan village / Sonja Laukkanen
- Section III: Public debates in heritage work: possibilities and limitations for plural voices and new forms of engagements
- Heritage visions of Mayor Geng Yanbo: re-creating the city of Datong / Jinze Cui
- The revitalization of Zhizhu Temple: policies, actors, and debates / Lui Tam
- Heritage 2.0: maintaining affective engagements with the local heritage in Taishun / Marina Svensson.